Thought-provoking post from the team at Anthropic, the company behind large language model Claude that gets way less attention than ChatGPT, but is no less interesting. They write about why thinking about the «character» of an AI (and what it means to make them «behave well») is important, both for the immediate user experience, and as a way to make sure these models remain aligned with human values.

From Weekly Filet #493, in June 2024.